Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rock Island, the automobile, equipped with railroad wheels, that came down the track one day in 1936. In it was a man who looked like Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was John Dow Farrington, 56. A railroader since 18, he had just been hired away from the Burlington Lines to pull the rocky Rock Island together. And he spent most of his first six months riding its 7,650 miles of track (much of it in his auto train) to find out what it was he was running...
Fever Chart. The Government, which berated industry for raising prices, did the same thing itself. In the commodity markets, it was Government buying, more than anything else, that boosted grain prices. They helped pull up the wholesale commodity price index (1926 average: 100) from 141.5 to 162 in a year. No one disputed that the Government had to buy grain for relief abroad. But did it have to buy it the way it did? In five months, it gobbled up some 400 million bushels of grain, despite the short corn crop which put pressure under all grain prices...
...John Osborne had managed to acquire "a large tree and a small goose," Correspondent Eric Gibbs's plight was typical. Cabled he: "Whether we eat turkey this Christmas depends on Number 22. If, as seems likely, there aren't enough turkeys to go around, our butcher will pull numbers out of a hat to decide who gets a bird. Pray...
...David Brockway '51, who ran ninth in the battle for eight posts on the committee, did not see it that way. "It was lousy trick to pull. It wasn't funny. Since applegate's votes might have changed the result, there should be another election...
With partition, Gershon Agronsky could look forward to liberation from censorship. "You're not required by law to submit everything," he says, "but God help you if you don't." He knows that the Post will face a heavier responsibility as the British pull out. The best tribute the Post has had came from the British High Commissioner on its tenth birthday. Sir Harold MacMichael congratulated the paper for "stating facts fairly, respecting confidences and avoiding equally sensationalism, snobbery and cheap insinuation...